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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:00:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Gordon Ewasiuk <gewasiuk@blackhorselabs.net>
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:48:55 -0700
> JD <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems (to me) that fbsd might be dropped altogether, and developers
>> will not waste their time and talent on an OS that has a very very small
>> installed base.
>
> 	People have been saying things like that about FreeBSD for the last
> twenty years, it's still going strong.

What's that old joke...

"Netcraft confirms FreeBSD is dying!"

Yet, three of the top 10 most reliable web hosts, according to Netcraft, 
run FreeBSD as of Nov 2017.

People have been saying FreeBSD is dying for ages now.  Yet somehow, all 
these new features keep turning up in new releases and those brilliant 
FreeBSD developers keep delivering the goods time and time again.

Also, consider that we've seen spinoffs from FreeBSD like the robust 
pfSense firewall and the feature-rich FreeNAS storage operating system.

All this angst is much ado about nothing.  There's a place for FreeBSD in 
our world.

-Gordon